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It is a pretty bad situation, 3.5+ years of separation (divorce finalized last summer), and it just had progressively gotten worse. But I think for the most part the really horrific stuff and the non-stop dealing with police and CPS is over. Everyone (police, CPS, courts, etc.) has caught on to her but so far nothing stops her from still creating problems. You would think losing your kids, coming up 2 years since custody change, being found in contempt, etc. would stop but it is obvious in so many ways she is solely just out to get me. I do have an attorney. My attorney sees it as I do which is at the very basic level, their mom has no parenting decisions and would not need to sign off. Then of course now including the protection order. But everyone interprets orders differently. An example is with their school. They allowed her to go to school on her non-parenting days, and fully knew some of her bad actions, essentially giving her extra parenting days. If they were in daycare she couldn't just go and spend time with them. My attorney says she isn't allowed to be there on her non-parenting days. With this new protection order, the school still is misinterpreting things but the end result is they now at least are not allowing her there on her non-parenting days. If she wasn't doing her bad actions I wouldn't care if she was there, but she isn't stopping. Another thing to add is that she has multiple times withheld the boys for me. Once it was the final act before the court changed custody, physically snatching one of the boys while my then g/f, now wife, was watching him while he was home from school sick. She walked in and ran off with him while he was still in his PJs, not even socks or shoes. Last winter she was held in contempt for not returning them from one of her days, even keeping them out of school for several days. She only returned them while my attorney and I were in court, ex parte, with papers that included an arrest warrant. And several other times when she had custody and she wiped the boys up into frenzies not wanting to go with me. Our son(s) not having valid passports would be a good way to delay any chance of her taking off with them. But two issues. While her parents really don't know much about all that has happened, they overall are very much against her and know she has physiological issues. I would like to take the boys myself to see them. I also have remarried, a woman from Colombia, and we do want to travel to Colombia whereas now we can't. I was planning on submitting for a passport and seeing what happens. But was hoping if anyone knew for certain how it should pan out. I do plan on keeping the passports in a safety deposit box, but I could see her also somehow having passports reissued and sent to her, or something else. It is probably something difficult for her to do but she has tricked other agencies into approval for nearly impossible to get approval for. Like an issue with the IRS and our last joint filing, which was in our divorce trial, approved at trial, with no objections from her. We owed money that year and after trial, she filed for incident spouse relief and they approved it meaning she doesn't have to pay anything, I have to pay it all. I am appealing but it is a local family court issue if anything and was already at trial.

I have two kids from a previous marriage and one of the boys' passports expired. Currently, I have"full custody" of the boys. I put that in quotes as I believe WA state doesn't use the term custody but the divorce decree states I have for now full decision-making and their mom is severely restrained from the boys. Currently, she is to be supervised on her visits which are every other weekend, no overnights. The supervisor has been professional but doesn't have to be professional but we couldn't come to an agreement for anyone else. At some point, she is supposed to have joint decisions but she has never moved from the first phase of the parenting plan Also, a couple of weeks ago I was granted a DV protection order against her because of many DV acts she had committed against me and our boys. WA state has a broad definition of what DV is and the acts were not physical but other bad acts she was doing. My attorney explained to me that even if she moves into the next phase of the parenting plan, which has joint decision-making, the protection order would not allow her to have joint decisions. The parenting plan also calls out that I am to pay for their passports. Overall, our case is very complex and continues to get worse. I wanted to get a new passport for my son since it has expired, but I don't want to do it without his mom knowing. She had and continues to do a lot of bad acts with our boys, such as coaching them in order to change custody, filing false CPS and police reports against me, etc. That doesn't matter for the passport. But she also is a huge flight risk. She is from Europe and her family all live there. She has said multiple times that she wishes she left with the boys when she could have, including in an interview with a detective last fall. And in a child forensic interview with our boys, once said that mommy was going to take them somewhere for up to a year until daddy thought they left the continent. I have no doubt she will run with them any chance she gets. With all that said, do I need to still have her sign off on the passport? Or would DS-5525 be enough and explain this above? I had been assuming since I have all decision-making and now a DVPO against her which includes our boys that she would not be required. Part of the issue with her is that we basically are on non-speaking terms. She is trying to have me arrested, constantly filing false police reports against me, so she overall I believe would be completely unwilling to help out here unless she plans on taking off with the boys. I also rather she not know that he has a new passport just because of this serious threat. At some point later in the parenting plan she would be allowed to take them overseas but for now, until her behavior changes, I want her to believe at least one of their passports is expired.

Hm...I think overall that works for us. While a delay for EAD not ideal it doesn't matter too much. Doing a bit more research it seems that technically 2021 is all that is needed right now since 2022 file deadline hasn't passed yet, and reading others saying they were just asked to have it for the interview. So maybe it is all hit or miss what will happen. I would suspect that the 3 years I'm providing shows I make well more than enough. My biggest concern was just a flat out denied or other major delays but this overall would appear to be pretty simple to clear up if they ask for 2022, once i have 2022 completed.

I am just about to send everything in to adjust status for my wife for a green card. But I have a question about taxes on the I-864. I haven't yet filed for 2022, it may still take awhile and that I will need an extension. While I understand it is advised to get the taxes done and than mail this is, it just won't be possible. Originally I was planning on sending in 2019, 2020, and 2021, and all 3 years I do make more than enough. Would there be any expectation that I may run into an issue? And if it gets rejected, is the entire process halted and everything is sent back? And how long would it take to be rejected? Basically I don't want to send it in, have it take several months (or longer) and than everything is sent back. If at least only I-864 was sent back pretty much right away to be updated/corrected, okay then, no big deal.

Sorry, this is still unclear to me. Anyone have any thoughts to what we should select?

No need for what? To make any selection here?

I am filling out the various forms for my wife to change her status. Looking at Part 4 and 5 I am not 100% on what we should put. She can speak a little English, we mostly talk to each other in English but she has bad English and we do google translate a lot. I am the one filling it out for her and she is reading what she is able to read but also Google translating what she doesn't understand while I also explain it. Should she go ahead and check box 1.a. in Part 4? Or should we 2. and fill out Part 6 with my information?

I did everything myself. My ex is not an option, I don't think she has those papers anymore. Plus I spent many years going through a divorce, as the courts were giving me my rights back and more of a 50/50 parenting plan, she went nuts and eventually lost custody of our boys and was only allowed to be around them while professionally supervised. Than we had a long divorce trial, and the judge ordered that she will never be anywhere close to 50/50 and currently is not even allowed to be with the boys over nights. Before the judge even signed the papers, she went around to every police department we have lived and visited alleging all sorts of crimes against me. Pretty sure she also didn't like that I got married again, and had another child. I'm surprised that this would be available through an public request as such. Would there be no other and quicker way?

I was prior married for about 10 years to someone who was born in another country and we went through the immigration process. We had divorced, and I have since married someone also who also came here from another country. Filing out the I-130 online, it is asking me for when the petition was filing for my prior spouse. I am not entirely sure the exact date, ballpark but not the exact date. Would not having the exact date correct matter? And if so; what would the quickest way to find the exact date without having the papers today. This was done about 15 years ago.

Appreciate the reply. Yes, I am a citizen, one side of my family has been here before 1776. She came here with a R B1/B2 visa and no other issues I am aware of. We would also fill out the other forms for work and travel but just trying to confirm what is all going to be required.

I recently got married to someone that over stayed their visa and we are now looking into her obtaining a green card. I may already know the answer to the help I am looking for but I just want to confirm. If I am understanding it correctly, we basically just need to fill out forms I-130, I-485, I-864 and that nothing further is needed as she entered legally. If she had entered illegal, it looks like we would need to fill out other forms as well such an I-601. Can anyone confirm if I am correct that essentially we just need to fill out the "normal" forms. If it matters, we had dated for several years prior to being married and also do have a child together.